[S][F]Markdown syntax on this forum

[GanonZD]

I always disliked the heavy and (IMO) archaic BBcode syntax currently used on this forum. I'm a much greater fan of the lighter Markdown syntax. Google reveals that there do exist Markdown plugins for phpBB. Would it be possible to implement one of these? Obviously, this should be an option that can be turned on or off, just like BBcode currently is; it can be turned off directly in the full post editor.

[kwando1313]

Ugh no. I vastly prefer BBCode over Markdown.

[] are rarely used in writing things, while <> tags are more commonly used.

Besides, if it ain't broke, why do anything with it? BBCode is fine.

[GanonZD]

BBcode is slow, heavy and cumbersome. Simply writing italic text takes an awful while. In Markdown, it's just *italic*.

However, as I mentioned, I only requested it as an option for those who prefer it; those who prefer BBcode could stick to that. There are already several such options in the Full editor, like turning off BBcode.

[kwando1313]

Yes, but I like writing things like *HUG* and I use tildes a lot in my text. Markdown completely screws up all that.

In addition, it's not very explicit at all. It's completely unintuitive that *TEXT* means something. With TEXT it's very clear that that will do something because you've explicitly said for it to do something.

[GanonZD]

That just means that we have different opinions about what is intuitive. Therefore, I suggest giving the user the choice.